It’s been too long since I made mention of notable Rock Band track pack additions, but with the imminent release of four new Spinal Tap tracks, that’s going to change for the moment.
Due June 16th and 18th (on Xbox 360 and PS3, respectively) alongside the release of their new album itself, Rock Band will be getting “Back from the Dead,” Rock ‘n’ Roll Nightmare” and “Warmer Than Hell” from Tap’s new Back From The Dead album, as well as Jack The Ripper-based themetune “Saucy Jack.”
Said bassist Harry Shear– err, Derek Smalls, “Tap has always gone where the audience is. We hope this time the audience reciprocates. Whatever that means.” [via Harmonix]
In celebration of the now online playable (as opposed to the original downloadable) version of Patrick Smith’s fantastic surreal adventure Windosill, the ongoing greatness of Backbone and Taito’s Xbox Live Arcade version of Space Invaders Extreme, and partially because I’ve simply got codes to spare, let’s have a weekend giveaway.
I’ll pick two people at random for Space Invaders Extreme, and three people for Windosill and send the codes from there. Note that while the Windosill codes will work worldwide, the SIE codes are available for North America only. Good luck!
Another merciless tease from overseas: Hudson not only debuts but puts on tantalizing clearance sale (down to ~$10!) this set of five shirts extolling the “gold finger” of company spokesman Takahashi Meijin, known best (as previously mentioned) for his ability to hummingbird-finger-press controller buttons at 16 times a second.
We very much need some kind of official middleman for all these overseas tees. [via TinyCartridge]
It’s hard to hone in on just one favorite thing in this latest trailer for Katamari Damacy Tribute — the forthcoming PS3 remake of the PS2 original (to be called Katamari Forever in the states). There’s the puppet show and prince racer, the mecha-King, Sexy Synthesizer‘s remix of the original Katamari on the Swing laden with Namco arcade sounds — it’s an all-out affront of Katamari madness.
What a difference a week and a half makes: Flashbang’s next Blurst web game, Crane Wars, shows its face for the last time before its imminent release on Monday, the 15th, having shaped up considerably since its first direct footage in early June. Expect this to be the best thing you’ll play all next week.
Just mentioned as recently as yesterday as the project codenamed LiveFire, it would appear that publisher ngmoco have officially rebranded their upcoming iPhone online-multiplayer arena shooter as KillTest, with the above debut trailer showing off both gameplay and its taunting push-notification calls to action.
Also relaunched is the new KillTest site, with concept art (from, as previously mentioned, some original members of the Halo team, though I can’t recall now if I’d recently seen their actual names) of its unlockable power suits.
UPDATE: I promise I didn’t make that whole deal up, but it does seem that all traces of KillTest have been erased from GameTrailers, and the blog now redirects back to its original generic fps.ngmoco.com, as before. Apparently the name hasn’t quite stuck? [Replaced for now with a captured YouTube.]
In case you missed it earlier this week across the tech blogs, Japan’s iPodTouchLab (who regularly upload the slickest of YouTube’s new app video demos) posts this nicely shot (though slightly washed-out) video of WWDC’s HyperWall data-viz: 20,000 of the App Store’s top sellers, arranged chromatically, which shimmer and ripple every an app is purchased, updated live.
